Urban Development
Projects exploring how cities evolve through architecture, infrastructure, and sustainable design interventions.
Urban development encompasses the planning, design, and transformation of cities and their built environments. Designers working in this space address how communities grow, adapt, and improve through thoughtful architectural and infrastructural strategies.
The community explores modular city concepts, adaptive reuse of existing urban plots, integration of green infrastructure and social housing, and sustainable living models that respond to urban density and peripheral expansion.
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View all 47 journalsCommon Practice and Studio AAAN Carve a Hidden Courtyard World into Amsterdam's Narrowest Plot
Sixty-four mid-rent apartments on Oostenburgereiland turn a sliver beside a parking garage into a layered urban interior.
MAKER Architecten Weaves Social Housing into Kortrijk's Dense Urban Fabric with Brick and Restraint
A social housing infill in Kortrijk, Belgium, negotiates between existing rooftops, rail corridors, and neighborhood memory with quiet force.
Productive Organism: A Mumbai Thesis That Treats Peripheral Housing as a Tool for Ecological Repair
Amod Nargund's thesis for Marve, Malvani layers mangrove ecology, adaptive housing and water cycles into a habitat that works like a living organism.
Urban Agricultural Community: A Housing Thesis That Puts the Farm Inside the Neighbourhood
Aazil Abdul Jamal's B.Arch thesis threads vertical farms, community plots and production space through housing, making food security a design parameter.